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ESA observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

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Bird’s-eye view: the butterflies and dark layers of Idaeus Fossae

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A martian butterfly flaps its wings

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30 years of SOHO imaging the Sun (unannotated)

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Sun-watcher SOHO celebrates thirty years

02/12/2025 3333 views 50 likes

Lessons from the November 2025 solar storm

21/11/2025 7537 views 49 likes

BepiColombo approaches Mercury

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Marking one year until BepiColombo reaches Mercury

21/11/2025 6962 views 47 likes

ESA and CAS teams working on the Smile mission

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Smile approved for launch in spring 2026

20/11/2025 2829 views 39 likes

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ESA's science fleet of Solar System explorers

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ESA’s science fleet of cosmic observers

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Launch: 2015 Europe’s first mission to Mercury

Europe’s first Red Planet orbiter

Deep space comet rendezvous mission

Launched: 1990 ESA contributed solar arrays and Faint Object Camera

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